Scarf wrote: * | Sun May 04, 2025 7:53 am |
oh wow, that brings back memories
its 3 volumes because it is important, like an encyclopedia
goes well with my response
Scarf wrote: * | Sat May 03, 2025 12:35 am |
...none of this had ever occurred to me.
Clearly, you've seen something I have completely missed.
I am curious as to your thoughts about what I posited, both before and after you saw it..
Scarf wrote: * | Sat May 03, 2025 12:35 am |
...you say the content is dropping. Dropping from where do you think? Where did it start? I thought they had started at zero. When was it higher? Are you referring to the Golden Age? Or at some point past it?
Oh wow...
like a client who makes a really complex request on a project and it will be a real simple win, so easy and quick to do, yet they think its so complicated.
then the client request where they request something that sounds so simple, yet it will be a nightmare to implement in the project and they dont realise it..
I could write pages and pages on the above questions.... very good questions
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when i say the content is dropping, i mean the actual content of the videos, the part the viewer takes away with them. This is something not tied just to this area, I am noticing it across this media space in general (the whole videos online thing, short, long, medium)
In a lot of ways it reminds me of the old 'reports' (not the agricultural type), which were short documents putting forward an idea but with no real solution or ideas to move forward... like an infomercial
then we had papers, with a start middle and end... the posit, the analysis and possible approaches/solutions
then was the books, expanding on the papers..
I feel watching a lot of videos that we've gone back to the 'reports' phase.. not just on this subject on a wider span also.
(this was what i meant)
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Now the other way this can be interpreted is they are dropping information on this subject that comes from before, its very obvious, some notable examples that have been posted on here over last years... the language, the way its laid out, they took this from somewhere as you said in an earlier post..
Some have openly stated in videos that they used to be part of this thing, in various stages, most seem from the upa time or shortly after during the reign of coloured pharmaceuticals.
Some are taking little bites of information from before that they came across... some have a much more complete reference library to look at..
Then i see other content creators take these snippets and try and create something around them, without understanding it or where it came from or why it came about.
Its like presenting part of the picture and not the most relevant part.
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They very much did not start at zero imho...
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The above change in media and presentation, sadly i have concluded so far that this is being driven by the monetisation policies of the various video platforms and what they value as regards views, likes, subscribes etc.
The chase for views/subs/likes and the point that a lot of what look like lone creators are teams of people with a schedule of videos and an upcoming list and writers..
Their focus imho is not on the content of the video, per se... the real content... its more on the video and the reaction to it..
There is also an issue here with copycat videos, where a content creator has made something that got big views and likes (relatively) and then others jump on it to try and ride the wave. Now if the original creator didnt really understand the content, the copier for sure doesnt, just reguritates several other videos in an attempt to make something vaguely original ;p
This is a current hot topic which will attract views, so it is being jumped on.. to some degree i expect this to tail off as some other hot topic comes up
In this way i consider a lot of the issues with these videos stemming from wider issues on that media format and the various platforms... its a symptom of a wider problem but is not helping imho.
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This also to me ties in to the move away from long-form discussions and a two way conversation to a more one way conversation with comments but little discussion.. which changes the communication largely.
A move to a more producer consumer model than a collaborative discussion.